Run .exe from WebForm

[mg]

How can I run an .exe (located at the server) from within
a WebForm? For example, run "word.exe mydoc.txt"

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

You can use:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe")

But if you are actually intending to use Word, that's not the way. Instead,
you'll want to investigate the Office interop components.

[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrrefofficeprimaryinteropassemblies.asp[/url]

Ken

"mg" <mg@theworld.com> wrote in message
news:011801c35475$af912e20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
How can I run an .exe (located at the server) from within
a WebForm? For example, run "word.exe mydoc.txt"

[mg]

I ran

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe");
}

and

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\\Program
Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\WinWord.exe");
}

but nothing happened.

???

>-----Original Message-----
>You can use:
>
>System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe")
>
>But if you are actually intending to use Word, that's not

the way. Instead,

>you'll want to investigate the Office interop components.
>
>[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?[/url]

url=/library/en-
us/dv_wrcore/html/wrrefofficeprimaryinteropassemblies.asp

>
>Ken
>
>"mg" <mg@theworld.com> wrote in message
>news:011801c35475$af912e20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>How can I run an .exe (located at the server) from within
>a WebForm? For example, run "word.exe mydoc.txt"
>
>
>.
>

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

What did you want to happen? The Web service doesn't have a way to show you
the desktop so there's nothing to see.

"mg" <mg@theworld.com> wrote in message
news:072001c3550a$0d623640$a401280a@phx.gbl...
I ran

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe");
}

and

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\\Program
Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\WinWord.exe");
}

but nothing happened.

???

>-----Original Message-----
>You can use:
>
>System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe")
>
>But if you are actually intending to use Word, that's not

the way. Instead,

>you'll want to investigate the Office interop components.
>
>[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?[/url]

url=/library/en-
us/dv_wrcore/html/wrrefofficeprimaryinteropassemblies.asp

>
>Ken
>
>"mg" <mg@theworld.com> wrote in message
>news:011801c35475$af912e20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>How can I run an .exe (located at the server) from within
>a WebForm? For example, run "word.exe mydoc.txt"
>
>
>.
>

[mg]

If possible, I'd like to open a program like notepad
programatically ... Ideally on the client (where the
WebForm is running in a browser), or at the server (where
IIS is running) ?

>-----Original Message-----
>What did you want to happen? The Web service doesn't

have a way to show you

>the desktop so there's nothing to see.
>
>"mg" <mg@theworld.com> wrote in message
>news:072001c3550a$0d623640$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>I ran
>
>private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
>{
>System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe");
>}
>
>and
>
>private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
>{
>System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\\Program
>Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office\\WinWord.exe");
>}
>
>but nothing happened.
>
>???
>
>
>

>>-----Original Message-----
>>You can use:
>>
>>System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("cmd.exe")
>>
>>But if you are actually intending to use Word, that's not

>the way. Instead,

>>you'll want to investigate the Office interop components.
>>
>>[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?[/url]

>url=/library/en-
>us/dv_wrcore/html/wrrefofficeprimaryinteropassemblies.asp

>>
>>Ken
>>
>>"mg" <mg@theworld.com> wrote in message
>>news:011801c35475$af912e20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>How can I run an .exe (located at the server) from within
>>a WebForm? For example, run "word.exe mydoc.txt"
>>
>>
>>.
>>

>
>
>.
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